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Book Blood and Rubles

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  • Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
  • Release : 2012-10-16
  • ISBN : 9049983677
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Blood and Rubles written by Stuart M. Kaminsky and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post–Cold War Moscow, business is booming and crime pays Capitalism has come to Russia, and money is raining from the sky. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia consolidates its power. In the center of this madness is police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, a thoughtful detective who is struggling to adjust to life in these turbulent times. A prominent businessman is kidnapped in broad daylight, minutes after finishing the paperwork to start his latest business venture. Three children, as innocent-looking as they are savage, terrorize a slum. And tax collectors discover a cache of historic Russian treasures dating to before the Revolution, but the trove vanishes overnight. As his country races into the future, the limping policeman will have to run to keep up.

Book A Child of Christian Blood

Download or read book A Child of Christian Blood written by Edmund Levin and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a thirty-seven-year-old father of five who worked as a clerk in a brick factory nearby, and charged him not only with Andrei’s murder but also with the Jewish ritual murder of a Christian child. Despite the fact that there was no evidence linking him to the crime, that he had a solid alibi, and that his main accuser was a professional criminal who was herself under suspicion for the murder, Beilis was imprisoned for more than two years before being brought to trial. As a handful of Russian officials and journalists diligently searched for the real killer, the rabid anti-Semites known as the Black Hundreds whipped into a frenzy men and women throughout the Russian Empire who firmly believed that this was only the latest example of centuries of Jewish ritual murder of Christian children—the age-old blood libel. With the full backing of Tsar Nicholas II’s teetering government, the prosecution called an array of “expert witnesses”—pathologists, a theologian, a psychological profiler—whose laughably incompetent testimony horrified liberal Russians and brought to Beilis’s side an array of international supporters who included Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Anatole France, Arthur Conan Doyle, the archbishop of Canterbury, and Jane Addams. The jury’s split verdict allowed both sides to claim victory: they agreed with the prosecution’s description of the wounds on the boy’s body—a description that was worded to imply a ritual murder—but they determined that Beilis was not the murderer. After the fall of the Romanovs in 1917, a renewed effort to find Andrei’s killer was not successful; in recent years his grave has become a pilgrimage site for those convinced that the boy was murdered by a Jew so that his blood could be used in making Passover matzo. Visitors today will find it covered with flowers. (With 24 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)

Book Russia is the blood enemy of Ukraine  The true history of Ukraine and Russia from the 2nd century BC  not distorted by Russian propaganda

Download or read book Russia is the blood enemy of Ukraine The true history of Ukraine and Russia from the 2nd century BC not distorted by Russian propaganda written by Nashchubskiy and published by Oleg Nashchubskiy. This book was released on 2024-04-13 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical book reveals the secrets of the past, casting light on the dark corners of the relationship between Ukraine and Russia. It unfolds a large-scale picture of an age-old relationship, shedding light on the tragic events and indescribable feats of both nations. As we travel through time, we will discover that the history of these two peoples is intertwined with threads of complex events dating back to ancient times. Each page of the book reveals not only the fascinating drama of historical vicissitudes, but also pronounced features of national character that shape the fate of peoples. This deep dive into the past opens eyes to the true causes of much of Ukraine's suffering, revealing complex knots of political and cultural influences from Russia. But at the same time, it offers a new perspective on the relationship between these peoples, calling for understanding and healing of historical wounds. This historical book is a ruthless expose of Russia as the root of all Ukraine's ills. I will tear the covers off the centuries-old lies and manipulations of the Kremlin. I will prove that every historical tragedy in Ukraine has roots in Russian influence. From ancient times to modern times, we will look at the shocking truth hidden from us and see the real face of Russia as the main aggressor and oppressor of Ukraine. This is a guide to the true history of the two peoples, which will convince you to rethink the shared history of these countries.

Book Russian Blood

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  • Author : Alex Shoumatoff
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9780394571997
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Russian Blood written by Alex Shoumatoff and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German Blood  Slavic Soil

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  • Author : Nicole Eaton
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2023-04-15
  • ISBN : 1501767380
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book German Blood Slavic Soil written by Nicole Eaton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes. Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole Eaton explores not only what Germans and Soviets thought about each other, but also how the war brought them together. She details an intricate timeline, first describing how Königsberg, a seven-hundred-year-old German port city on the Baltic Sea and lifelong home of Immanuel Kant, became infamous in the 1930s as the easternmost bastion of Hitler's Third Reich and the launching point for the Nazis' genocidal war in the East. She then describes how, after being destroyed by bombing and siege warfare in 1945, Königsberg became Kaliningrad, the westernmost city of Stalin's Soviet Union. Königsberg/Kaliningrad is the only city to have been ruled by both Hitler and Stalin as their own—in both wartime occupation and as integral territory of the two regimes. German Blood, Slavic Soil presents an intimate look into the Nazi-Soviet encounter during World War II. Eaton impressively shows how this outpost city, far from the centers of power in Moscow and Berlin, became a closed-off space where Nazis and Stalinists each staged radical experiments in societal transformation and were forced to reimagine their utopias in dialogue with the encounter between the victims and proponents of the two regimes.

Book Written in Blood

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  • Author : Lynn Ellen Patyk
  • Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
  • Release : 2017-06-20
  • ISBN : 0299312208
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Written in Blood written by Lynn Ellen Patyk and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded.

Book Blood Russian

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  • Author : R. D. Zimmerman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780345344632
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Blood Russian written by R. D. Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia Washed in Blood

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  • Author : Artyom Vesyoly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-15
  • ISBN : 9781785274848
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Russia Washed in Blood written by Artyom Vesyoly and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first English translation of a vivid fictionalised account of the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921 by a gifted writer, Artyom Vesyoly, who made it his mission to record the full horror of the events of that period. For his failure to recognise the 'leading organisational role' of the Communist Party, he was executed in Stalin's Great Purge.

Book From Russia with Blood

Download or read book From Russia with Blood written by Heidi Blake and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad -- while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat. They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power dropped dead in strange or suspicious circumstances. One by one, their British lawyers and fixers met similarly grisly ends. Yet, one by one, the British authorities shut down every investigation -- and carried on courting the Kremlin. The spies in the riverside headquarters of MI6 looked on with horror as the scope of the Kremlin's global killing campaign became all too clear. And, across the Atlantic, American intelligence officials watched with mounting alarm as the bodies piled up, concerned that the tide of death could spread to the United States. Those fears intensified when a one-time Kremlin henchman was found bludgeoned to death in a Washington, D.C. penthouse. But it wasn't until Putin's assassins unleashed a deadly chemical weapon on the streets of Britain, endangering hundreds of members of the public in a failed attempt to slay the double agent Sergei Skripal, that Western governments were finally forced to admit that the killing had spun out of control. Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death on British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the Kremlin's assassination campaign as part of Putin's ruthless pursuit of global dominance -- and reveals why Western governments have failed to stop the bloodshed. The unforgettable story that emerges whisks us from London's high-end night clubs to Miami's million-dollar hideouts ultimately renders a bone-chilling portrait of money, betrayal, and murder, written with the pace and propulsive power of a thriller. Based on a vast trove of unpublished documents, bags of discarded police evidence, and interviews with hundreds of insiders, this heart-stopping international investigation uncovers one of the most important -- and terrifying -- geopolitical stories of our time.

Book Russian American Relations  March  1917 March  1920

Download or read book Russian American Relations March 1917 March 1920 written by Foreign Policy Association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood Money

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  • Author : Blair Coán
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Blood Money written by Blair Coán and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood and Rubles

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  • Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781568953298
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Blood and Rubles written by Stuart M. Kaminsky and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Cold War over, Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and the members of the Moscow metropolitan police cope with a vicious organized crime execution, a gang of murderous children, a cache of stolen czarist treasures, and a mysterious kidnapping

Book Cost Analysis of Blood Banking Alternatives

Download or read book Cost Analysis of Blood Banking Alternatives written by Ted Miller and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Nationalism Since 1856

Download or read book Russian Nationalism Since 1856 written by Astrid S. Tuminez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful book describes the range of nationalist ideas that have taken root in Russia since 1856. Drawing on a wide range of archival documents and unparalleled interview material from the post-Soviet period, Tuminez analyzes two cases_Russian panslavism in 1856-1878 and great power nationalism in 1905-1914_when aggressive nationalist ideas clearly influenced Russian foreign policy and contributed to decisions to go to war. Yet not all forms of nationalism have been malevolent, and the author assesses competing nationalist ideologies in the post-Soviet period to clarify the conditions under which a particularly belligerent nationalism could flourish and influence Russian international behavior.

Book Russian Blood  a Family Chronicle

Download or read book Russian Blood a Family Chronicle written by Alex Shoumatoff and published by Coward McCann. This book was released on 1982 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book White Blood

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  • Author : James Fleming
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-01-09
  • ISBN : 1416548432
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book White Blood written by James Fleming and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution The son of an English father and a Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a big man -- big in stature and big in spirit. A naturalist, he roughs it around the world collecting birds and insects for museums. In 1914 he is on a mission for the Academy of Sciences in Russian Turkestan when war breaks out. His pay is stopped and his companion goes off to enlist. Doig, however, has no intention of volunteering to be killed. He returns to the Pink House, his family's home near Smolensk, and to the woman he loves, his cousin Elizaveta. At first the Pink House remains almost untouched by outside events, and the familiar ways continue as before. But imperial Russia is doomed and with it all the old certainties. Trapped by the snow with Doig and Elizaveta are a motley collection of old aristocrats, their servants and hangers-on -- and two soldiers who have sought refuge with them, one of whom, Doig fears, is a Bolshevik out to destroy them all. Beautifully written, richly imagined, by turns savage and tender, this exhilarating novel confirms James Fleming as one of the very best novelists at work today.

Book Russian Road

Download or read book Russian Road written by Margaret Wettlin and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: